// Multilingualism of the North Caucasus and problems of ethnolinguistics and intercultural communication. Pyatigorsk, 2004. 2 pages . The reorientation of the linguistic education system to the training of a specialist in intercultural communication puts forward as the leading goal of the educational process the education of the intercultural competence of the student. There are different models for preparing individuals for intercultural interaction. In the course of scientific methodological research, it has been proved that one of the ways to develop intercultural competence is the mandatory study of foreign languages on a comparative basis, in the process of which intercultural competence is formed (G.). In. Elizarova). We believe that from a methodological point of view it is advisable to distinguish between the training of an individual preparing to “move” to a new culture for the purpose of assimilation (in the case of migrants or persons traveling abroad for a long time) and the training of a specialist in intercultural communication.